List of administrative districts and cities in Rhineland-Palatinate

Counties and independent cities in Rhineland-Palatinate

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is subdivided into a total of 24 districts and 12 independent cities . This list of the districts and independent cities in Rhineland-Palatinate gives a general overview of these including their most important data. The current administrative structure of the country came about through the district reform from 1969 to 1974 , in which the previous 39 districts and 12 independent cities were restructured. What is unique is that the district of Germersheim has retained its structure (with a small exception on March 16, 1974) to this day.

With 19,854.2 square kilometers, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is the ninth largest state in the Federal Republic of Germany . In terms of population, it ranks seventh with 4,093,903 people. The average population density is 206 inhabitants per square kilometer, although this can vary greatly within the individual districts. The population density in the city of Mainz is 2236 inhabitants per square kilometer, in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis 507 inhabitants per square kilometer and in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm only 61 inhabitants per square kilometer. The most populous district is the district of Mayen-Koblenz with 214,434 inhabitants, the least populous district of Vulkaneifel with 60,646 inhabitants. The largest independent city is Mainz with 218,578 inhabitants. The largest district in terms of area is the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, which, with 1,626.22 square kilometers, ranks 47th in terms of the size of the districts in Germany. The smallest district is the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis with 304.92 square kilometers.

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The following list is structured as follows:

District, independent city: Name of the district or the independent city
District town: Name of the district town: The cell is empty for urban districts.
Coat of arms: official coat of arms of the district or the independent city
Location: Location map of the districts or cities within the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Motor vehicle: vehicle registration number of the respective regional authority
Ew: Population of the respective regional authority as of December 31, 2019
Area: Area of the respective regional authority in square kilometers (km²)
Ew / km²: population density in inhabitants per square kilometer
Remarks: further information on geographic features of the respective cities and districts is listed, including mountains, rivers and larger lakes
Image: a typical image from the region with which the respective regional authority is identified

Overview

District / urban district	County seat	Vehicle	Ew	Area (in km²)	Ew / km²	Remarks
Ahrweiler	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler	AW	130.086	786.98	165	borders on North Rhine-Westphalia ; Rivers: Rhine and Ahr ; Parts of the Eifel in the district area
Altenkirchen (Westerwald)	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)	AK	128,805	641.99	201	borders on North Rhine-Westphalia ; Rivers: Sieg , Wied and Nister ; Westerwald's Siegerland
Alzey-Worms	Alzey	AZ	129,687	588.15	220	borders on Hessen ; River: Rhine ; Alzeyer Hügelland , parts of Rheinhessische Schweiz
Bad Dürkheim	Bad Dürkheim	DÜW	132,671	594.76	223	Palatinate , parts of the Palatinate Forest
Bad Kreuznach	Bad Kreuznach	KH	158.345	863.76	183	River: Nahe ; Hunsrück , Rheinhessen , North Palatinate Uplands
Bernkastel-Wittlich	Wittlich	WIL, BKS	112,483	1,167.56	96	River: Moselle ; Eifel , Hunsrück , highest mountain in Rhineland-Palatinate Erbeskopf
Birch field	Birch field	BIR	80,951	776.58	104	borders on the Saarland ; River: Nahe ; Hunsrück ; Westrich
Cochem cell	Cochem	COC, ZEL	61,375	692.33	89	River: Moselle ; Eifel , Hunsrück
Donnersbergkreis	Kirchheimbolanden	KIB, ROK	75,325	645.52	117	River: Alsenz ; Nordpfälzer Bergland , Palatinate Forest ; highest mountain in the Palatinate Donnersberg
Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm	Bitburg	BIT, PRÜ	99.058	1,626.22	61	Largest district in terms of area in Rhineland-Palatinate; until the end of 2006 called "Bitburg-Prüm"; borders on Belgium and Luxembourg and on North Rhine-Westphalia ; Rivers: Kyll , Nims , Prüm , Our and Sauer ; Eifel
Frankenthal (Pfalz) (independent city)		FT	48,762	43.76	1114	River: Isenach ; Upper Rhine Plain
Germersheim	Germersheim	GER	129.013	463.35	278	borders on France and Baden-Württemberg ; Rivers: Rhine , Lauter ; Upper Rhine Graben
Kaiserslautern (independent city)		KL	100.030	139.74	716	River: Louder ; Palatinate Forest
Kaiserslautern	Kaiserslautern	KL	105,979	639.88	166	borders on the Saarland ; River: Louder ; Palatinate Forest , North Palatinate Uplands
Koblenz (independent city)		KO	114.052	105.13	1085	Rivers: Rhine and Moselle ( Deutsches Eck ); Foothills of the Maifeld , the Westerwald and the Hunsrück
Kusel	Kusel	KUS	70.219	573.28	122	borders on the Saarland ; Rivers: Lauter and Glan ; North Palatinate Uplands
Landau in der Pfalz (independent city)		LD	46,881	82.96	565	Palatinate Forest , Upper Rhine Plain
Ludwigshafen am Rhein (independent city)		LU	172.253	77.55	2221	borders on Baden-Wuerttemberg and forms a dual center with the directly adjacent Baden-Wuerttembergian Mannheim ; River: Rhine ; Upper Rhine Graben
Mainz (independent city)		MZ	218,578	97.74	2236	State capital, largest city in Rhineland-Palatinate; borders on Hesse and forms a double center with the directly adjacent Hessian Wiesbaden ; River: Rhine
Mainz-Bingen	Ingelheim am Rhein	MZ , BIN	211,417	605.77	349	borders on Hessen ; Rivers: Rhine and Nahe ; Rheinhessen
Mayen-Koblenz	Koblenz	MYK, MY	214,434	817.25	262	most populous district of Rhineland-Palatinate; Rivers: Rhine , Moselle , Nette and Elzbach ; Westerwald , Maifeld , Pellenz
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (independent city)		NW	53,264	117.1	455	River: Speyerbach ; Haardt , Upper Rhine Plain
Neuwied	Neuwied	NO	182.811	626.9	292	borders on North Rhine-Westphalia ; Rivers: Rhine , Wied ; Westerwald
Pirmasens (independent city)		PS	40.231	61.37	656	Palatinate Forest
Rhein-Hunsrück district	Simmern / Hunsrück	SIM, GOA	103.163	991.12	104	River: Rhine ; Hunsrück
Rhein-Lahn district	Bad Ems	EMS, DIZ, GOH	122.297	782.29	156	borders on Hessen ; Rivers: Rhine and Lahn ; Westerwald and Taunus
Rhine-Palatinate District	Ludwigshafen am Rhein	RP	154,609	304.92	507	smallest district of Rhineland-Palatinate in terms of area; borders on Hesse and Baden-Württemberg ; River: Rhine ; until 2003 district of Ludwigshafen
Speyer (independent city)		SP	50,561	42.6	1187	borders on Baden-Württemberg ; Rivers: Rhine and Speyerbach ; Upper Rhine Plain
Southern Wine Route	Landau in the Palatinate	SOUTH	110,521	639.83	173	borders on France ; Rivers: Lauter and Queich ; Palatinate Forest and Upper Rhine Plain ; is on the German Wine Route
Southwest Palatinate	Pirmasens	PS , ZW	94,831	953.65	99	borders on France and the Saarland ; Source of the Lauterbach; Palatinate Forest and Westrich plateau
Trier (independent city)		TR	111,528	117.13	952	River: Moselle ; Foothills of the Hunsrück and the Eifel
Trier-Saarburg	trier	TR, SAB	149,398	1,101.49	136	borders on Luxembourg and the Saarland ; Rivers: Moselle , Sauer , Saar Ruwer ; Hunsrück
Vulkaneifel	Down	DAU	60,646	911.02	67	least populous district in Rhineland-Palatinate; until the end of 2006 designation of the Daun district ; borders on North Rhine-Westphalia ; River: Kyll ; Eifel
Westerwaldkreis	Montabaur	WW	201.904	988.95	204	borders on North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse ; Rivers: nisters ; Wied and Sayn ; Westerwald ; was created in 1974 from the Unterwesterwaldkreis and Oberwesterwaldkreis districts
Worms (independent city)		WHERE	83,542	108.73	768	borders on Hessen ; Rivers: Rhine ; Awl ; Upper Rhine Plain
Zweibrücken (independent city)		ZW	34.193	70.64	484	borders on the Saarland ; Rivers: Schwarzbach ; Hornbach ; Westrich
Rhineland-Palatinate			4,093,903	19,854.2	206